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Sketches and Essays by William Hazlitt, natv first Collected by

his Son. We believe this is one volume of a uniform edition of the gifted and original though somewhat uneven as well as peculiar writer, which seems to be in the course of publication. As regards typography and getting up, it may vie with most other reprints ; but as compositions, the Essays are not fair specimens of HAZLITT, exhibiting his personal prejudices and weaknesses in greater extent than most of his other works. Some of the articles, and many passages, are, however, free from this defect. The "Letter-Bell" especially. We hardly know any thing posses- sing a more soothing melancholy, than the opening of this paper ; it has the reality of an autobiography, with the larger truth and depth of fiction.